Newb Tries Boogie For First Time [10 Minute Tones FM9 USA Rhythm 1]

Trying out the USA Rhythm 1 (formerly USA Clean) model in the FM9. This is the clean channel of the Mesa Boogie Mark IV.
Download the preset: axechange.fract...

[@miker20]

Wasn’t gonna comment but you said you wanted to learn.. first of all, get rid of that guitar and get something without single coil pickups.. second, and most importantly, the less gear you have the more skill you can acquire. So in other words, stop messing around with all these complex frequencies and knobs and block paths and actually focus on actually getting better at guitar. There is no amount of equipment in the world that will make you a better guitar player, in fact it’s now proven that when you jump straight into all these plug ins and amp mods and shit too soon, you’re actually hindering your playing skills extremely by focusing too much on the production side of music which technically you never really have to learn at all. Too many videos on here with bunch of dudes doing all this talking (cause that’s what they are actually good at) then play some simple as shit on the guitar and gaslight everyone

[@cunjoz]

The clean channel of all the mark series boogies is pretty straight forward. however, when you get into overdriven and high gain stuff it becomes confusing for those used to the classic tonestack stuff, i.e. setting the 3 tone knobs to 12 o'clock and going from there.
it's different but it's easy to remember:
bass - set it low, like below 3 (low frequencies low)
mids - set it mid, between 2 and 4 (mid frequencies mid)
treble - set it high, above 5 (high frequencies high)
treble also ads some gain.
and then you shape your tone a bit more with the 5 band eq and a good starting point is to raise the leftmost fader a bit, leave the next one, lower the 750, leave the next one as is, and raise the 6600. that's the classic MB mark smiley face eq shape. experiment with the values to reach the desirable tone. this is the way to reach master of puppets or john petrucci tones.
ofc, you don't have to use the 5 band eq. then you get in the ballpark of carlos santana tones because he used the mark 1 which doesn't have the eq.

[@CaptHowdy77FP]

Dead-on solid advice. Cheers!

[@cunjoz]

@@CaptHowdy77FP thanks bro. been a massive fan of Petrucci and his sound so I had to dive into the Mark series amps.
recently i started getting into his roadking/rectifier tone and I love how massive and full it is.
be it mark or rectifier series of amps, mesa boogies are just completely unique on the market. nothing comes close.

[@bradspaulding]

🙏🏼 🤘🏻

[@CaptHowdy77FP]

Like bro said below: Don't sleep on that Output EQ page of the amp block, that is where the 5-Band Graphic EQ is for the MESAs. You won't get that scooped punch without it, and there's a reason it's ubiquitous. It's important enough imho you'd do well to give it another ten minutes, remembering also the amp eq knobs feed straight into the preamp so you want the low EQ way down to avoid the low-end woof. You're not wrong, the MESAs are different beasts entirely and I'm just repeating stuff I found on the Fractal forums, but it works like a charm on my FX3.

[@MOAB-UT]

Sounding great. What speakers are you using- or is recording into your DAW directly?
Experimenting is half the fun. You really can't go wrong with 99% of the tones you will get out of the FM9. It's like Good and Gooder!

[@bradspaulding]

Recording direct via USB, and I have two Atomic CLRs in the room to make noise. :)

[@MOAB-UT]

@@bradspaulding Nice. Sounds good as usual. Do protect your ears. Grab a cheap $20 dB meter- keep it under 70. You don't want ringing. It gets very annoying and hinders my playing...10 years and counting!

[@bradspaulding]

I’ve got one just out of frame! I try to stay 80-90. I’m curious how you arrived at 70?

[@rockstarjazzcat]

Absolutely no good blanket reason to get rid of the single coil pickups. Long time Boogie user here. That is all for now. Cheers, D